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Apropos of its title, this unflaggingly riveting disc finds Robert Plant revisiting his Led Zeppelin roots, grabbing bits and pieces of deep blues, North African melodies, and shamanic mysticism, and putting them back together in slightly off-balance fashion. Plant's unmistakable serpentine moan is, naturally, at the core of the disc's dozen songs -- soaring particularly high into the stratosphere on the uplifting "Shine It All Around" -- but he's not shy about sharing the spotlight with the other members of his band, Strange Sensation. On "Brother Ray" -- a tribute to the late Ray Charles -- keyboardist John Baggott gets a chance to let loose with some stellar ...
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Barnes & Noble - David Sprague
Apropos of its title, this unflaggingly riveting disc finds Robert Plant revisiting his Led Zeppelin roots, grabbing bits and pieces of deep blues, North African melodies, and shamanic mysticism, and putting them back together in slightly off-balance fashion. Plant's unmistakable serpentine moan is, naturally, at the core of the disc's dozen songs -- soaring particularly high into the stratosphere on the uplifting "Shine It All Around" -- but he's not shy about sharing the spotlight with the other members of his band, Strange Sensation. On "Brother Ray" -- a tribute to the late Ray Charles -- keyboardist John Baggott gets a chance to let loose with some stellar boogie-woogie piano, while the Moroccan-flavored "Another Tribe" showcases the spot-on tribal playing of drummer Clive Deamer. The latter song is one of several that find Plant abandoning his usual lyrical touchstones -- unfettered lust and otherworldly questing -- in favor of a solidly political stance. The most pronounced of those tracks is "Freedom Fries," a slithery jump blues that's redolent of Plant's Honeydrippers material, until the anti-imperialist screed really kicks in. Plant doesn't take things so far as to make fans worry that he's repositioned himself as a post-millennial protest singer -- the breathy "The Enchanter," for instance, is as sensual as anything he's done in his solo career -- but he does move in enough mercurial directions to confirm that even the most iconic artist is capable of some reinvention.
All Music Guide - Thom Jurek
On Mighty Rearranger, the core of the band Robert Plant showcased on 2002's Dreamland -- and named the Strange Sensation -- is a full-blown expanded lineup that shares the bill with him. Guitarists Justin Adams and Skin Tyson, drummer Clive Deamer, keyboardist John Baggot, and bassist Billy Fuller help Plant give listeners his most musically satisfying and diverse recording since, well, Led Zeppelin's Physical Grafitti. The reference is not a mere platitude to Plant's pedigree. The songs, production, and sequencing of the album overtly incorporates those sounds as well as those of Eastern modalism, Malian folk, guitar rock, R&B, and others, for inspiration -- and why shouldn't they? Mighty Rearranger opens with "Another Tribe," a sociopolitical ballad that touches upon the textural string backdrops from Zep's "Kashmir" and is fueled by Moroccan bendir drums. Adams' guitar shifts it over to rock in the middle, but never crowds the crystalline lilting vocal. The single, "Shine It All Around," sports Deamer's crunch and crack drums, while Adams' canny emulation of Jimmy Page's Les Paul toneography fills Plant's sung and moaned lines with ferocity. But it is "Freedom Fries," with its startling percussive syncopation and juxtaposition of roots rockabilly blues and hard rock -- à la "Black Dog" -- that breaks the record wide open and shatters the sensual tension with pure Dionysian RAWK swagger. On "Tin Pan Valley," Baggot's whispering keyboard lines under Plant's nocturnal moan set a mood -- slippery, sexy, undulating -- before Deamer cracks through with cymbal and snare work that not only emulates John Bonham, but evokes his power, unfurling the Zep talons deeper into the core of the album. The beautiful balladry of "All the King's Horses" offers solid proof of Plant's ability to reference the English folk tradition with elegance and taste, and his continued acumen for fine lyric writing. The acoustic guitars purposely kiss the same space that Page did on "Over the Hills and Far Away" and "Goin' to California," but are balanced by Adams' pastoral electric country fills. But here's the important part: the Zeppelin spirit that is seemingly ever present here takes nothing away from the startling imagination and creativity on Mighty Rearranger -- it actually serves, rather than houses, the songs it adorns. And it's the songs, like the sultry slow stroll of "The Enchanter" and the North African-flavored rocker "Takamba," that matter. Plant and Strange Sensation have painstakingly and energetically crafted an album that takes his full history into account, yet offers something living, breathing, and actually new. This is big rock music making an appearance on the scene agian. It's music that is full of itself, sneers at the competition, and pushes forward by acknowledging the full breadth of the music's tarted-up history. The dramatic "Let the Four Winds Blow" touches everything from early rock & roll to droning Delta blues to biker soundtrack music in a dramatic and utterly serious song. The title track uses the Malian guitar plank and turns it back on itself, pointing its gaze toward John Lee Hooker, Skip James, and the piano blues of Otis Spann. The album closes with Baggot's barroom blues piano that propels Plant to pay a brief barrelhouse tribute to Ray Charles on "Brother Ray." Mighty Rearranger is a literate, ambitious, and sublimely vulgar exercise in how to make a mature yet utterly unfettered rock & roll album that takes chances, not prisoners, and apologizes for nothing.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 5/10/2005
  • Label: Sanctuary Records
  • UPC: 060768474727
  • Catalog Number: 84747

Tracks

Disc 1
  1. 1 Another Tribe - Robert Plant (3:16)
  2. 2 Shine It All Around - Robert Plant (4:03)
  3. 3 Freedom Fries - Robert Plant (2:52)
  4. 4 Tin Pan Valley - Robert Plant (3:46)
  5. 5 All the King's Horses - Robert Plant (4:19)
  6. 6 The Enchanter - Robert Plant (5:27)
  7. 7 Takamba - Robert Plant (4:05)
  8. 8 Dancing in Heaven - Robert Plant (4:25)
  9. 9 Somebody Knocking - Robert Plant (3:46)
  10. 10 Let the Four Winds Blow - Robert Plant (4:52)
  11. 11 Mighty Rearranger - Robert Plant (4:25)
  12. 12 Brother Ray - Robert Plant (8:58)
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Album Credits

Performance Credits
Robert Plant & the Strange Sensation Primary Artist
Robert Plant Indexed Contributor, Harmonica, Vocals
Clive Deamer Drums, Bendir
John Baggot Keyboards, Moog Synthesizer, electronics, Moog Bass
Justin Adams Bass, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, Bendir, Tehardent
Skin Tyson Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar
Billy Fuller Bass Guitar, Double Bass
Technical Credits
Robert Plant Composer, Concept, Creation
Bill Curbishley Management
Clive Deamer Engineer, Concept, Creation
Teo Miller Engineer
Tim Oliver Engineer
John Baggot Composer, Concept, Creation
Steve Evans Engineer
Justin Adams Composer, Concept, Creation
Grahame Baker Smith Illustrations, Cover Design
Skin Tyson Composer, Engineer, Concept, Creation
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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Robert Plant Still Rocks!!!

    I have been a Zeppelin/Robert Plant fan for 20 plus years. This is Plant's best solo work to date. He still has the greatest voice in rock and has only improved with age. I highly recommend this cd.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Robert Plant is the Mighty Rearranger!!!

    Robert Plant has turned into something more powerful than words can describe. I'm only 26 and I can't get enough of this man. Led Zep fan since I can remember, but this music is by far the most spiritual and enlighting. Way to go Plant!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Transcendent

    I have never before been motivated to write a review, but I can hardly contain myself. Mighty Rearranger is the pinnacle of Plant's career. It is fluid, meaningful, soulful, inspiring, affirming. And yes, it rocks. Oh, does it rock. This album will strike the chords of your '70s memories and at the same time meet you in your life today. A truly spritual experience. And did I mention it rocks? Yes, it rocks.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Exceeds this Zep Fan's Expectations

    Having been a Zep fan since 1971, I never expected a Robert Plant lp/cd to sound this good without Jimmy Page. This disc puts Plant's grammy nominated cd "Dreamland" to shame. Great mix of songs with sonic surprises along the way. Plant, Zep fans, and Rock music lovers will not be dissappointed. See him live this summer if you can!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Mighty Rearranger Indeed !!!!

    When Dreamland was released in 2002, some might have thought that it would be a CD that was here today gone tomorrow. A whim lets say. Along the lines of Honeydrippers Vol.1. I had the great enjoyment of seeing Plant and Strange Sensation here in K.C. that summer. The Band had by that time garnered a name and a musical identity. Porl Thompson was gone replaced by Skin. The show was riviting and white hot. The third world music meets the delta blues thru Zeppelin was projected with live fury. I walked away from the show realizing I had seen an incarnation of Robert Plant to come. Sure enough this CD delivers on that shows promise 3 years ago. All original tunes full of Blues Images and World beats. The decided difference between this CD and the last one is the time they've played live together getting this sound down tight. A leap not unlike The Beatles took from Help to Rubber Soul. "All the Kings Horses" is accoustic and wistful. Then your hit with the sheer power of this band that I saw live on tracks like "Shine It All Around" and "Somebody Knocking". Everything works here. The guitars touch upon every British Guitar Hero from George Harrison,to Jimmy Page, and beyond. If you've been waiting for a return to form for Plant. Your wait is over. Enjoy the show!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Coming from a 15-year-old Zeppelin fan...

    Coming from a 15-year-old Led Zeppelin fan, this review should be helpful to those of all ages... I picked this cd up this morning because I am a MAJOR Led Zeppelin fan. As you probably know, Led Zeppelin is no longer around, but Jimmy Page (guitarist) and Robert Plant (Singer) still tour together sometimes. Now, unfortunately, is not one of those times. So, when I heard Robert Plant was touring in my area, I got excited. But my excitement was soon overcome with confusion. I was confused with my own thoughts on whether or not I wanted to go. I was still pretty sure that I wanted to go, but to test whether or not I would enjoy myself, and so I would know some of the songs at the concert, I decided to buy this cd. I knew it was Plant's newest cd, and I figured he would play many songs from this at the concert. I have yet to listen to the whole cd (I'm actually listening to the cd now) but all I can say is WOW! I totally underestimated this cd. I didn't think there would be much rocking, but this cd, no Led Zeppelin, had quite a bit of that as well as its own music genre. I give this album a 4 out of 5 because it is no Led Zeppelin, but is a fantastic album. Robert Plant has done a great job on this album!

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